Today you will be working on your stages of plot foldable as well as page 16 of your foldable notebook: "Types of Conflict."Stages of plot: As a class we will recall the events of The Hunger Games and map out the stages of plot from the story.Types of Conflict: On your own, or with a partner, recall the events from The Hunger Games and identify 4 different typs of conflicts from the story on page 16 in your notebook. Be sure to write complete sentences for your responses.

At the bottom of the page, explain how 1 of the 4 conflicts you identified was resolved.

This week, we will be reading the summary of The Hunger Games in preparation for our class novel, Catching Fire, the second book in the series. As we read through the summary, you will answer comprehension questions in order to build background knowlage of the world and characters created in this series. Each Day, we will follow up our summary review by watching those sections from the movie. We will compare and contrast the movie with the summary, and fill in the missing information that was not included in the summary or movie.

Page 10: Identifying ConflictsOn this page, you need to identify an internal and external conflict from the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart." After you've identified an example of each type of conflict, explain how each one was resolved.

Page 11: Evaluating a NarratorOn the top of this page, make a claim by turning the question around - Is the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" a reliable narrator?

Next, identify text evidence to support your claim. Make an inference for each piece of evidence explaining why it is a valid form of support.

You need to provide a piece of text evidence for each of the following categories: thoughts, dialogue, feelings, choices and actions.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:*Pages 1-11 of your Foldable Notebook are due at the end of the period Friday. I will be checking and grading your foldables over the weekend. (This includes your table of contents.)*You will also be getting back your Story Elements CFA's.*After you turn in your completed notebook, you may go to HoytRocks2014 and do any of the activities under the games tab or watch any of the posted videos. You may also login if you would like to write a post.

1. Fall SRI Testing. To begin your test, click on the link on the right side of the screen. You will use your student ID number as your login and password. Please do your best and good luck!

2. Finish and publish your "Attitude About School" blog post. Click the link on the right side of your screen and login to blogger. Remember: students are testing. If you need help, please quietly raise your and and I will come to you.

If you are finished with your test AND your blog post go to HoytRocks2014 and you may watch any of the videos under the "Awesome Videos" tab, or play games under the "It's All Fun and Games" tab. You may not go on to any other websites or any other videos.

Today we are going to analyze writing prompts in order to make sure we respond fully.We will reread two short passages from "The Elevator" and work together to write responses that fully address the prompts.Academic focus: contrast, infer, textual evidence We will also go over last week's CFA on story elements.

Today we are going to take an Assessment over what we have covered so far in Unit 1.

First we will review the role "setting" plays in a story. Our last assessment showed that we need to work on how the setting of a story can affect the mood of a story as well as the characters.

We will then go over key concepts or terms used in the questions of today's assessment. (In the future, you will not be able to ask for any clarification on questions.) Then you will be on your own to complete the assessment.

Assessment Focus:

contrasting characters

making inferences and citing textural evidence to support inferences

using textual evidence to describe relationships between characters; explaining how relationships effect the events of a story

Today you are going to work on your first blog post on our class blog: hoytrocks2014.blogspot.com

Your assignment is to post your three paragraph description of how your attitude about school has changed over the years.

1. Complete the writing frame.2. Log in to blogger.com using the login and password from your notebook. 3. Click "new post" NOT "new blog" and begin typing. Before you publish your post, proofread and spell check your work, put your first name and last initial in the "labels" box, and give your post a title.